There are 59 species of British butterfly and each one deserves a couple of stunning photographs, some interesting facts about its life cycle and a poem dedicated to it.
Lifelong butterfly lover and poet Jonathan Bradley and his photographer friend Yealand Kalfayan have done just that in this colourful and inspiring book.
Bradley has also included a mini biography of several famous lepidopterists who have left their mark in this radiant world.
This lovely, bright hardback is a feast for the eyes.
Table of Content
Foreword iv
Preface v
Adonis Blue 1
Walter Rothschild & Miriam Rothschild 4
Black Hairstreak 5
Brimstone 8
Brown Argus 11
Brown Hairstreak 14
Camberwell Beauty 17
Chalkhill Blue 20
Chequered Skipper 23
Clouded Yellow 26
Comma 29
Common Blue 32
Dark Green Fritillary 35
Dingy Skipper 38
Duke of Burgundy 41
Essex Skipper 44
Gatekeeper 47
Eleanor Glanville 50
Glanville Fritillary 51
Grayling 54
Green Hairstreak 57
Green-veined White 60
Grizzled Skipper 63
Heath Fritillary 66
High Brown Fritillary 69
Holly Blue 72
Large Blue 75
Large Heath 78
King Boris III of Bulgaria 81
Large Skipper 82
Lulworth Skipper 85
Marbled White 88
Marsh Fritillary 91
Meadow Brown 94
Mountain Ringlet 97
Northern Brown Argus 100
Orange-tip 103
Margaret Fountaine 106
Painted Lady 107
Peacock 110
Pearl-bordered Fritillary 113
Purple Emperor 116
Purple Hairstreak 119
Red Admiral 122
Ringlet 125
Scotch Argus 128
Silver-spotted Skipper 131
Vladimir Nabokov 134
Silver-studded Blue 135
Silver-washed Fritillary 138
Small Blue 141
Small Copper 144
Small Heath 147
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary 150
Small Skipper 153
Small Tortoiseshell 156
Speckled Wood 159
Swallowtail 162
Wall Brown 165
White Admiral 168
Sir Winston Churchill 171
Whites, Large and Small 172
White-letter Hairstreak 175
Wood White 178
A glimpse of some rarities 181
Acknowledgements 183
Bibliography 184
Photo credits 185
Index 186
About the author
Jonathan Bradley is an academic, businessman and published poet who has written on butterflies for various magazines, including The Countryman, This England, and Atropos magazine.
His long-standing passion for butterflies was inspired by walks in the countryside with his now-adult children when they were young.
He has a strong commitment to conserving butterflies and their environments.
He lives with his wife Harriet near Bristol, where they are lucky to have many butterflies visiting their garden.
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